So, I’m going to do a soft sunset of Koype and work on a new edition of it. I mentioned this lightly in some other posts but I’ve learned so much about what I want my online identity (and offline!) to look like and I have a plan for it now. This site will stay up and I’m aiming to keep it running until I can swap it out with my new project. Fun times :)

Strong agree. And I’d apply this to those at other companies in the FAANG umbrella. We, as workers, have the power and we need to take control of it (and our talents) and take it elsewhere. https://fogknife.com/2020-08-30-to-my-friends-at-facebook.html

After a bit of a hunting, I think it’ll be very possible to continue building a Micropub server that uses Hypercore/Dat as a storage medium! My long term goal here is to lean on Hypercore to provide a controlled, distributed file system for the flat file storage of posts (instead of leaning on a centralized though self-hostable system like https://min.io/ with free versioning and a means of handling access control for the content. Truthfully, I’d want the Micropub server to have access to two “drives”. We can name them /public for the generated pages of one’s site that then can be automatically available to the general public (or not! the ACL should work on a file-level from the docs so something similar to protected posts could work here) and another /content drive that holds the more intimate details on one’s site - the preprocessed bits like the raw templates, database for just quicker indexing (maybe sticking to SQLite because I’ve invested a lot into SQL, lol) and the raw posts and images.

This is very exciting and potentially the basis of making it easy to automate publishing from your conventional Website into the distributed Web!

I feel like someone’s published a guide on how to build an ethical and safe social network. I think it was @tinysubversions’s https://runyourown.social/

You have to be kidding me. https://www.hyper.online/

The fact that people are STILL trying to justify using facial recognition technology when we don’t even a solid means of reviewing AI is not only wild to me - it’s scary. People actually don’t give a shit about kids and just stuffing them into thousands of S3 buckets because “innovation”!

I just donated to Streets For All @streetsforall to support their work to make walking and biking safe in @LACity @CulverCityGov cc/ @CicLAvia streetsforall.org/initiatives

Are you finding space for yourself during eternal Caturday?

Looking forward to the next epic entry in the GMCCU (General Mills Cereal Cinematic Universe)

Also, I was saving this one. https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-big-music-needs-to-be-broken-up-to-save-the-industry/ As I was reading this, I kept thinking about how Microsoft keeps vacuuming up game studios, effectively weakening the independent game dev space as well.

Capitalism is a virus.

((Not-Shocked-Or-Surprised-Just-Wondering-When-Yall-Gonna-Stop-Giving-Them-Money.GIF))) https://twitter.com/fightfortheftr/status/1371868190951702530

Precisely. I still won’t watch either of these films largely out of protest but mainly out of respect of the people whose identities they’re perverting for gain. This is capitalism working in top shape. https://twitter.com/birthmarxist/status/1371630111099924481

@doctorow never seems to miss the shot with his threads. https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1371649086298886146

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My goodness, that was a deeply geeky tweet.
Fine, build me a Matrioshka Brain and you can mint all the NFTs you want.